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Progress bars still work. Gratuitous animations don't.

Well, what do you expect? LLMs are trained on blithering, mostly from web sites. So you get blithering out. There's an important point in the article, that forcing a style onto an …

The pseudo-academic style of the article is awful. All abstractions and buzzwords, no examples. Also, the tragedy of the commons concept is far older than 1968. The term "common" r…

Right. So many things were tried in the 1950s. There was a lot of interest in nonlinear magnetic devices. UNIVAC had magnetic amplifiers in their "Solid State" computer (1958). Mag…

Yes. There ought to be a lot more small claims court cases in the US, just to keep businesses honest.

Good point. The steel rusts, expands, more water gets in, more rust, concrete cracking, exposed rebar, rebar rusts away, no tensile strength, collapse. (I was going to link to a pi…

What's the FCC's statutory authority for this? This adds mobile LIDAR units to the FCC's "Covered List". The CFR entry for the Covered List [1] claims this is under the Secure and …

Of course, you need "forever plastics" to make this work long term. It's like everything else where you have a material with decent compressive strength but weak tensile strength. …

On the moral front, see The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion" by Jonathan Haidt (2013). This has a nice analysis of why different people think a…

It's worth thinking about incentives from the standpoint of feedback control theory. Typically, you have an input, an output, a measurement of the output, and an output goal. There…

7 GW! All California load is 35GW right now.

> I hear similar from professional clothing photographers who find that even if they want to support the human models, they're forced by economics to use the GenAI models. That, to…

I mean let Claude make it into a movie. A task which is quite possible.

Now have it make it into a movie.

Addressing the question in the title, "What happens if an entire class of workers loses faith in their careers", look at what happened to printers. That was a good skilled trade fo…

California has only four really good wind sites, and they already have wind farms on them. The real US wind belt is from the Texas panhandle northward to Canada. Look at a wind map…

It's 10 PM. Do you know where your children are? We do.

There's the Yanna9x approach to someone snatching a phone and running off.[1] [1] https://www.youtube.com/shorts/XHyi0Q8vrOA

Is there a standard parts list of immediately available parts, like JLBPCB? [1] [1] https://jlcpcb.com/parts/in-stock-parts

Drone and defense teams get boards back in 7 days. Quick turn in the US is 2 to 4 days.[1] That's expensive but available. [1] https://www.surfacemountsolutions.com/services/quick-…

That is a public-sector union. That's different. Political power matters in that space. A useful private sector union to watch is The Animation Guild, IATSE local 639.[1] They repr…

> I take the point, but I think the author picked a poor analogy. He may have missed the point. AI-generated code does not seem to have parsimony, for one. Generating code is cheap…

Amusingly, there are streaming sites you can't watch without permission from your "television provider".

ESPN, however, demands that they get the full 6 MHz.

Sorry, without Google accounts. I don't want a Google account on my phone. I've never had one.